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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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 Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 12:57 am Post subject: Double Standard Seen Among Terror Critics |
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A lecturer in public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government claims there is a double standard by which Muslim clerics are criticized for not condemning Islamist terrorism when "rabbis are not condemning the violent settlers' movement."
Jessica Stern's lecture and those of other participants sought to promote "new thinking against violent extremism and radicalization," according to papers circulated at the conference by the EastWest Institute, a think tank hosting the event in Manhattan.
Dr. Stern opened her remarks by saying that, while it may be true there is presently more violence being committed in the name of Islam than in the name of other religions, "all three major monotheistic religions have produced violence."
She then drew a parallel between what she characterized as violence in the name of Islam and violence in the name of Judaism and Christianity, as well as in official responses to such violence on the part of leaders of all three faiths.
"I've heard a lot of bashing of Muslim clerics for not stepping up to the plate and condemning extremist violence," she said. "But Catholic priests are not stepping up to condemn those who kill abortion doctors�[and] rabbis are not condemning the violent settlers' movement."
Asked afterward to clarify who comprises the "violent settlers' movement," and what specific acts of violence they are engaged in, she said, "People who want to blow up the Dome of the Rock or who are fighting the Israeli government. I'm not talking about the Israeli government."
When asked to cite specific examples of violence undertaken by this "violent settlers' movement," she mentioned Yigal Amir's 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, a crime that was almost universally condemned by Jewish leadership.
Dr. Stern is author of the books "Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill" and "The Ultimate Terrorists," based on her interviews with white supremacists in the U.S. and Islamist terrorist leaders overseas. |
http://www.nysun.com/article/56641
To which the Catholic League president Bill Donohue responded
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�Forced moral equivalency is immoral, and that is exactly what Jessica Stern is promoting. The silence of Muslim clerics in the face of Muslim violence is well-known. But when it comes to killing abortionists, the Catholic clergy have an impeccable record. It should be noted, too, that as the New York Sun pointed out today, rabbis everywhere condemned Yigal Amir�s 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin�the very incident that Stern cited as an example of Jewish silence.
�To begin with, there has not been a single abortionist killed in the U.S. since 1998. When there were killings in the mid-1990s, Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles, chairman of the Pro-Life Activities of the bishops� conference, said that such shootings make �a mockery of everything we stand for.� When there were two killings at Massachusetts abortion clinics, Cardinal Bernard Law not only denounced them, he ordered a moratorium on sidewalk protest vigils outside abortion clinics in Boston. Cardinal John O�Connor�s response in New York was profound: �If anyone has an urge to kill an abortionist, kill me instead.�
�Just this week, a report of Muslim violence against Iraqi Christians was released. The study, Incipient Genocide, describes in detail �the deaths of Christian children�including babies�laypeople, priests and nuns who were burned, beaten or blown up in car bombs throughout the past few years.� Moreover, Christian girls are being raped and having nitric acid thrown in their faces for not wearing veils. And the Muslim silence is deafening.� |
Rape of infidel women is encouraged. Ask Australia or Sweden.
The apologizing for muslim murder is getting absurd. Is there no end to the moral equivalence on the left? Are they all so pathetic in their grand defeat that they simply support anything that is anti-West?
This Stratfor podcast gets at it.
https://www.stratfor.com/reports/podcasts.php?#form |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 2:14 am Post subject: Re: Double Standard Seen Among Terror Critics |
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Yes, it's totally true.
We don't share your politics and frothing at the mouth hatred of furriners simply because WE JUST LOVE RAPE
It's cool. Just ask MTV. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 6:53 am Post subject: Re: Double Standard Seen Among Terror Critics |
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Rape of infidel women is encouraged. Ask Australia or Sweden.
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Man jailed over 'Bible' rape
A MAN who raped a Muslim woman because she showed an interest in Christianity has been jailed for at least five years by a Sydney court.
As Abdul Reda Al-Shawany was sentenced today, the Downing Centre District Court heard a harrowing statement from the victim, revealing that her shame and fear had been compounded by her cultural background.
The woman, who cannot be named, arrived in Australia as a refugee from Iraq. |
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21911631-2,00.html |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 7:40 am Post subject: Re: Double Standard Seen Among Terror Critics |
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| BJWD wrote: |
The apologizing for muslim murder is getting absurd. Is there no end to the moral equivalence on the left? Are they all so pathetic in their grand defeat that they simply support anything that is anti-West?
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You give Joo a run for his money on insensate posting, and gopher on your sweeping accusations of anti-ness. |
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